The Once Fallen 2025 Annual Report

 The Once Fallen 2025 Annual Report

In recent years, OnceFallen has pivoted away from front-line activism and towwards resource gathering for those new to the registry or will be forced to register upon release. However, the changes to Corrlinks at the direction of the the federal Bureau of Prisons put a huge dent in assistance requests in 2025. In September 2024, the BOP began placing strict limitations on mass emails, effectively ending newsletters utilizing the Corrlinks email service. Furthermore, Wisconsin moved away from Corrlinks and onto “GettingOut/GTL, which for some reason, never seems to work for me. As a result, requests & inquiries to OnceFallen fell by just over a third from 2024. 

Major Accomplishments for 2025:

1. Completed and published the Anti-Registry Activist Survey
2. Completed and posted the 2025 (5th Ed.) of Your Life on The List on the front page of OnceFallen.
3. Created spreadsheets for local-level restrictions for Florida, Maine, Nebraska, Texas, and Wisconsin. 
4. Testified before the Nebraska legislature, and wrote opposition statements to Florida & Maine.
5. Got one OpEd published in Portland, ME newspaper challenging local residency restriction proposals.   

First Contacts Stats:

Grand total: 441 persons (Down from 706 in 2024; -265  or 37.5% decrease)

By communication type:

• Email: 180
• Letter: 130
• Phone: 58
• Corrlinks: 38
• Text: 28
• Facebook: 6
• SmartInmate: 1

By State/Country:

At least one person in 44 states plus DC, 2 US Territories, and one person from Canada reached out to OnceFallen in 2025:

• IN: 41
• FL: 29
• TX: 23
• PA: 22
• IL: 19
• CA: 18, UT: 18
• MO, WI: 14
• AL: 13
• GA: 11
• MI, OH: 10
• KS, NC: 9
• SC: 8
• AR, NY: 7
• VA: 5
• ID, MA: 4
• WA: 4
• AZ, CO, CT, DE: 3
• NM, NV: 3
• TN: 3
• KY, MS, ND, NE, NJ, OR: 2
• AK, Canada, DC, IA, LA, MD, ME, MN, NH, OK, PR, VI, WV: 1
• HI, MT, RI, SD, VT, & WY: 0

Reasons for reaching out to OnceFallen:

• Housing: 151
• General info or Miscellaneous Issues: 104
• Your life on The List (YLOTL) book: 49
• Activism/Advocacy/Information Sharing: 31
• Specific State/Territory Law: 24
• Legal Assistance/Appeals/Attorneys/Registry Relief/Request for free materials: 21
• Life on the List (LOTL) Newsletters: 19
• Single Law issue: 15
• Civil Commitment/Prisoner Issues/PO/SO treatment issues: 12
• Harassment/Scam/Vigilante Issues: 4

By Month:

• January: 56
• February: 41
• March: 38
• April: 34
• May: 47
• June: 27
• July: 38
• August: 36
• September: 28
• October: 35
• November: 23
• December: 38

Total letters: Many prisoners write multiple times. There were 130 individuals who contacted OnceFallen by mail but there were 190 total letters. 

New Contact by mail: 130 (down from 159 in 2024; -29 or 18.2% decrease)

Total Letters: 190 (down from 270 in 2024; -80 or 29.6% decrease)

Corrlinks Subscribers: 911 (down from 1381 in 2024, -470 or a 34% decrease), note that ALL are now federal or military; none are state-level subscribers.

Financial Support for OnceFallen did improve over previous years (upby about 25% from 2024) but they were relatively larger donations from a small number of donors. 

Once Fallen 2024 Annual Report

The year 2024 was among the worst years for OnceFallen since we started making reports. There have been numerous hindrances to our brand, including the following:

1. The federal Bureau of Prisons had increased the number of facilities that censored our correspondence with prisoners. In September, the BOP changed how Corrlinks handles emails, effectively preventing us from continuing the Informational Corrlinks Newsletter (ICoN), which has negatively impacted our ability to get valuable info to prisoners.
2. The Wisconsin prison system is switching to a different email network which also limits the ability to get info to prisoners.
3. A dispute with the distributor of our book, Your Life on The List, has led to the decision to distribute the 4th edition of the book solely as a PDF file on OnceFallen.com and through the Fair Shake app for prisoners.
4. A fundraising attempt to replace aging equipment fell far short of the goal.
5. Aside from a single OpEd in the Delaware Cape-Gazette, I had no other media inquiries, though I was interviewed twice by researchers as part of upcoming papers. 

Needless to say, this has been a down year for Once Fallen. Both donations and requests for information fell this year. 

Total individual inquiries: 706 (down from 788 in 2023; -82 or a 10.5% decrease)

First contact from:

• Email: 247
• Corrlinks: 165
• Letter/US Mail: 159
• Phone: 91
• Text: 30
• Facebook: 9
• LinkedIn: 2

Reason for Initial Contact: Of the 706 inquiries,

• Housing (including housing leads or requests for housing & nursing homes, housing provider passing along their info): 197
• General Inquiry (Incl. those unsure what they needed or needed clarification): 116
• ICoN (newsletters): 63
• State-Specific Info: 49
• Information Sharing (tips, news, suggestions): 47
• Other assorted categories: 47
• Registry law questions: 45
• Jail/Prison/Parole/Probation issues: 33
• Your Life on The List Book: 33
• Activism (How to join movement): 30
• Legal Assistance/ Lawyer referrals: 21
• Thank You messages: 10
• Harassment Issues (targeted by vigilantes): 9
• Treatment-related issues: 6

Inquiries by Month:

• January: 77
• February: 79
• March: 80
• April: 62
• May: 55
• June: 41
• July: 35
• August: 60
• September: 66
• October: 65
• November: 38
• December: 38

Inquiries by state (When Known): 44 states, DC, Puerto Rico, & one foreign nation (Panama)

• 66: IN
• 65: WI
• 35: TX
• 33: FL
• 25: IL
• 24: CA
• 20: MO
• 16: AL
• 15: UT
• 14: OH, PA
• 13: KY
• 12: KS
• 11: GA
• 10: MI, MN, ND, NY
• 9: SC, WA
• 7:AR, CT, OR, VA
• 6: CO
• 5: AZ, NJ, OK, TN
• 4: NM
• 3: DE, IA, NE, NV, WV
• 2: DC, LA, MS, SD
• 1: AK, ID, MD, ME, ND, NH, Panama, PR, WY

For those who are curious: Because we offer a special info pack for WI, and we have a private housing list for IN, UT, and KS, as well as being featured on the AL 211, these states have more inquiries than average compared to states of comparible size. 

TOTAL NUMBER OF LETTERS BY MAIL: 269 (down from 296 from 2023, -27 or a 9.9% decrease)

Total Corrlinks Subscribers:

• Federal: 952 (down from 1005 in 2023; -53, or a 5.3% decrease)
• State/Other Facilities: 399 (almost all are in WI, down from 446 in 2023; -47, or 14.4% decrease)
• Total: 1381 (down from 1451 in 2023; -70 or 4.8% decrease)

Donations to OnceFallen were the lowest since 2011, with a 30% decrease from 2023, which in turn was a 44.5% decrease from 2022. Contributions in 2024 were only 38% of what they were two years ago. 

Once Fallen has, in response, scaled back its operations further, including refraining from traveling at all for activism events. If not for a visit to Omaha for a visit with Nebraskans Unafraid in November, Once Fallen would not have traveled at all for activism efforts at all for the first time since 2011. Fundraising efforts largely fell flat, tempered only by few needs this year. 

OnceFallen is pivoting away from anti-registry activism in the next year and towards resource-gathering, including a renewed focus on housing searches. 

OnceFallen 2023 Annual Report

Since 2016, OnceFallen has published an annual report summarizing the efforts of our anti-registry activism.  Most of the activism performed by OnceFallen is either the maintenance of the OnceFallen.com website, responding to inquiries, or through prisoner outreach. When needed, OnceFallen is willing to attend activist events, conduct media interviews, and legislative meetings addressing sex offense laws when necessary. OnceFallen runs on a shoestring budget BUT rarely needs donations unless that need involves traveling to events. 

OnceFallen major accomplishments in 2023:

1. Organized the DC Vigil in March 2023 to protest 20 years of the terrible Smith v. Doe ruling, and gave the eulogy at the event. 

2. Assisted a record number of individuals, averaging over 2 per day. 

3. Was featured in the book, “From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear” by Emily Horowitz (2023). No media contacts were made and no OpEds were published, however. 

4. Conducted 2 surveys, a larger 99-question survey of anti-registry activists, of which there were 695 participants (final paper still in progress), and a smaller 19-question survey on Insurance and Travel issues for Registered Persons (final report published in Dec. 2023)

INITIAL CONTACT STATS

Total New Contacts 2023 – 788 (710 in 2022, +78, an 11% increase over 2022)

Reasons for initial contact, in order of most to least common reasons for first contact. Please note, this is only for INITIAL contact, and in the case of prisoners, it may begin with a “general info” contact followed by a later resource request: Housing (202), “General Inquiries” (i.e., those with general questions or unclear about needs (167)), sex offense law questions (69), state law summaries (54), ICoN/Informational Corrlinks Newsletter (32), Your Life on The List book (30), Attorneys (28), Activism (22), jail/prison issues (21), Information Sharing (20), PO Issues (17), Thank You (13), and Treatment issues (10). There were many individual inquiries; also, some services people seek are not services I provide, like attorney lists or issues related to treatment while incarcerated, but people still send requests me way in hopes of getting their personal issues resolved. 

New contacts were spread across 46 US States, Puerto Rico, and the USVI, in addition to one contact each from Australia, Brazil, and Germany. I made no known contact with anyone from AK, ND, MA and ME in 2022. 

States ranked from most to least inquiries: Wisconsin (153); FloriDUH (45); Texas (33); Indiana (34); Missouri (29); California (28); Ohio (25); Illinois (21); Pennsylvania (20); North Carolina (17); Georgia (15); Virginia (13); Kansas (12); Alabama (11); New York (10); Kentucky/Michigan/Oregon/Washington State (9 each); Arizona/Louisiana/New Jersey (8 each); Nevada/South Carolina (7 each); Colorado/Tennessee (6 each); Arkansas/Iowa (5); Delaware/Mississippi/New Mexico/Oklahoma/Utah (4 each); Nebraska/New Hampshire/Wyoming (3 each); Connecticut/Hawaii/Maryland/Minnesota/South Dakota/Vermont/West Virginia (2 each); Idaho/Montana/Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands (1 each)

Initial Contact Type from most to least common: Email (246), Corrlinks (233), letter/postal mail (159), phone (97), text (35), Facebook (17), LinkedIn (1)

New contacts by month; January (94), February (62), March (87), April (83), May (62), June (59), July (59), August (60), September (68), October (63), November (41), December (56)

Corrlinks Informational Newsletter (ICoN) subscribers: At the end of 2023, I had 1315 total Corrlinks subscribers (up from 1315 in 2022), but of those, 446 are state prisoners (up from 392 in 2022), and because it costs extra to send email to state prisoners, these 446 do not receive monthly newsletters. That leaves 1005 federal and CCA prisoners receiving the newsletters. In 2022, there were 923 subscribers, so this is an increase of 82 subscribers, or 8.9%.

Letter Stats: OnceFallen received 296 total requests by mail (note: many were repeat requests), which is 3.5 (%) more than last year. 

Financial Resources & Expenses

Financial support decreased over 2022 numbers by about 44.5%. Since OnceFallen typically operates on a shoestring budget, donations are generally not needed nor have they been solicited when not in immediate need, so even small donations significantly change the numbers. Typical expenses include supplies related to prisoner outreach, including envelopes, stamps, printer toner, phone expenses, the occasional free book to prisoners, etc. Largest expense was related to the DC event, but as costs were offset by a transportation sale and a fellow activist opening his home to OnceFallen reps, expenses were minimal for this trip. 

OnceFallen.com Annual Report 2022

OnceFallen.com Annual Report 2022

Summary: This year, I had more new contacts than any other year. Many were prisoners, which is unsurprising since I respond to prisoner inquiries and print out some materials for them. 

Most of the activism performed by OnceFallen is either the maintenance of the OnceFallen.com website, responding to inquiries, or through prisoner outreach. When needed, OnceFallen is willing to attend activist events, conduct media interviews, and legislative meetings addressing sex offense laws when necessary. OnceFallen runs on a shoestring budget but rarely needs donations unless the need involves travel. 

OnceFallen major accomplishments in 2022:

1. Offered assistance to, and attended, a rally against Civil Commitment in Austin, Texas

2. Completed the 3rd Edition of Your Life on The List. 

3. Wrote four articles for The Crime Report. No media contacts were made this year, however. 

INITIAL CONTACT STATS

Total New Contacts 2022 – 710 (667 in 2021, +43, a 9% increase over 2021)

Reasons for initial contact, in order of most to least common reasons for first contact. Please note, this is only for INITIAL contact, and in the case of prisoners, it may begin with a “general info” contact followed by a later resource request: Housing Leads (165), Legal info or referrals (90), General Info (89), ICoN prisoner newsletter (62), State Law questions (50),  Probation/Parole issues (28), Prisoner/Jail issues (25) Book/Your Life on The List (23), Activism (23), ARM surveys (14), Harassment (11), Thank You notes (10), and Employment issues (10). The rest were specific questions not listed. 

New contacts were spread across 44 US States, DC, and the USVI, in addition to at least one contact from Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, and Singapore. I made no known contact with anyone from AK, HI, ID, MT, MS, and RI in 2022. 

States ranked from most to least inquiries: Wisconsin (70); FloriDUH (56); Ohio (35); Texas (29); Georgia & Missouri (20 each); Illinois & California (17 each); New York (15); Michigan (14); Pennsylvania (13); Virginia (12); Kansas (11); Arkansas, New Jersey, & Washington (10 each); Colorado, Indiana, & Tennessee (9 each); N. Carolina & Oklahoma (7 each); West Virginia (6); Arizona & Oregon (5 each); Kentucky (4); Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, & Minnesota (3 each); DC, Delaware, Louisiana, Nebraska, The Netherlands, Nevada, and Vermont (2 each); Denmark, Germany, Maine, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Singapore, Utah, US Virgin Is., and Wyoming (1 each). 228 ever mentioned location

Initial Contact Type from most to least common: Corrlinks (212), email (216), letter/postal mail (133), phone (91), text (39), Facebook (12), LinkedIn (1), Twitter (1)

New contacts by month; January (106), February (52), March (73), April (50), May (43), June (52), July (46), August (64), September (61), October (64), November (38), December (61)

Corrlinks Informational Newsletter (ICoN) subscribers: At the end of 2022, I had 1315 total Corrlinks subscribers (up from 1196 in 2021), but of those, 392 are state prisoners (slightly up from 385 in 2021), and because it costs extra to send email to state prisoners, these 392 do not receive monthly newsletters. That leaves 923 federal and CCA prisoners receiving the newsletters. In 2021, there were 811 subscribers, so this is an increase of 112 subscribers, or 8.7%.

Letter Stats: OnceFallen received 286 total requests by mail (note: many were repeat requests), which is 51 (15.1%) less than last year. 

Financial Resources & Expenses

Financial support decreased over 2021 numbers by about 18%. Since OnceFallen typically operates on a shoestring budget, donations, particularly large donations, are generally not needed. I was invited to take part in a rally against Civil Commitment in Texas, which was the only action that required significant funds, and thus significant fundraising efforts. Typical expenses include supplies related to prisoner outreach, including envelopes, stamps, printer toner, phone expenses, the occasional free book to prisoners, etc. I do not expect to take part in any public awareness events in 2023 so I expect even less financial support due to a lower need to raise funds in 2023. 

In 2022 the federal government decreased the amount of money individuals can collect from online transactions from $20k to $600, so OnceFallen suspended all online transactions. This is likely the reason behind the decline in donations. But since I have no plans to participate in public events in 2023, this is nothing to worry about. 

The OnceFallen.com Annual Report 2021

 OnceFallen.com Annual Report 2021

New Contact Statistics

Summary: This year, I had more new contacts than any other year. Many were prisoners, which is unsurprising since I respond to prisoner inquiries and print out some materials for them. Around March, I was added to the FairShake network’s list of resources, which caused a massive spike in new contacts in 2021. 

OnceFallen major accomplishments:

• Your Life on The List: Edition 2 released: It took longer than expected by the 2nd Edition made many improvements over the 1st edition and is up for sale at Amazon.com
• St. Paul MN, Rally Against the MSOP Civil Commitment Program: Helped organize and volunteered at the outdoor event at the Minnesota State Capitol in July
• New, more mobile-friendly website: I had to raise money to pay someone to create the new website but now it is more user-friendly. 
• Most ever new contacts: New contacts in 2021 shattered the previous records set in 2020. 
• Media appearances: OnceFalen got three OpEds in The Crime Report, and was feaured in the Voloch Conspiracy (WaPost legal blog) in March (in regards to my victory over the evil Florida State Senator Lauren Book), as well as CBS4 in Denver (regarding the SOMB proposed rule change), the latter of which led to inclusion in numerous media outlets. 

INITIAL CONTACT STATS

Total New Contacts 2021 – 667 (476 in 2020, +191, 40%)

Reasons for initial contact, in order of most to least common reasons for first contact. Please note, this is only for INITIAL contact, and in the case of prisoners, it may begin with a “general info” contact followed by a later resource request:

• Housing Leads (132): Requests for housing information
• Sex offense Laws (96): Inquiries about many aspects of sex offense laws, from registration to residency restrictions to fees to GPS and related laws. 
• Assorted questions (91): Various topics including resource sharing, website issues, harassment issues, and even contact from vigilantes
• ICoN Inquiry (84): Requests for being added to the Informational Corrlinks Newsletter (ICoN or various questions about the ICoN)
• General Info (73): This category is for people who have inquiries that are broad in nature (“what can I expect as a Registered Person?”) or those who were not sure what they needed when making initial contact. These are usually handled by phone calls. 
• “Your Life on The List” Book (34): First contacts asking specifically about the book, including requests for a free copy.
• State-Specific Laws & Resources (34): Requests specific to a specific state
• Activism advice (31): General discussions on activism or specific discussions of activism projects 
• Legal Advice/Lawyer referrals (26): I don’t provide either, (advice is only lawman advice and I make them aware of that), but I try to offer advice when I can find it. 
• Supervision/Probation/Parole Issues (24): Issues related to being “on paper”
• Prisoner Needs (15): I don’t offer certain services to prisoners; in some cases I can merely provide a list of prisoner-specific resources. 
• Various 50 State Guides printouts (12): I have offered prinouts of the AtwoZee 50 state travel guide and the relief from registry spreadsheets from the CCRC to prisoners, but with the release of my registry survival guide, I receive fewer initial requests for these guides than in the past.
• Employment issues (10): Various issues regarding finding and keeping a job 
• Media contacts (4): Requests for interviews

Locations: 483 of the 667 inquiries gave a location. Six were outside the USA (3 UK, and one each from Ukraine, Germany, and another nation he did not specifically state for privacy reasons)

Because Fairshake added me to their prisoner resource list, there was a massive spike of new inquiries from a single state—Wisconsin. 42 US States, DC, and Puerto Rico had at least one contact each—I made no known contact with anyone from AK, HI, ME, NM, ND, RI, VT, and WY in 2021. 

States ranked from most to least inquiries: Wisconsin (129), Florida (41), Texas (38), Ohio (33)Illinois (20), California (19), Pennsylvania/Virginia (14 each), New York (13), Georgia (12), Minnesota (11), Louisiana (9), Alabama/Missouri/Washington State (8 each), Arkansas/Tennessee (7 each), Arizona/Colorado/Michigan (6 each), Indiana/Kansas/Kentucky/Oregon (5 each), Deleware/Iowa/North Carolina/New Jersey/Oklahoma/South Carolina (4 each), Connecticut/Massachusetts/Utah (3 each), Idaho/Nebraska/Nevada/Puerto Rico/West Virginia (2 each), DC/Mississippi/Montana/New Hampshire/South Dakota (1 each)

Initial Contact Type from most to least common: Corrlinks (265), email (211), letter/postal mail (114), phone (79), text (19), Facebook (6), LinkedIn (2), Support forum (1)

New contacts by month; January (66), February (73), March (87), April (50), May (65), June (69), July (39), August (54), September (48), October (34), November (48), December (43)

Corrlinks Informational Newsletter (ICoN) subscribers: Stats for this were complicated by a new development. At the end of 2021, I have 1196 total contacts in Corrlinks, but of those, 385 are state prisoners (nearly all from Wisconsin), and because it costs extra to send email to state prisoners, these 385 do not receive monthly newsletters. That leaves 811 federal and CCA prisoners receiving the newsletters. In 2020, there were 637 subscribers, so this is an increase of 174 subscribers, or 27.3%.

Letter Stats: OnceFallen received 337 total requests by mail (note than many were repeat requests), which is 52 (18.25%) more than last year. 

Financial Resources & Expenses

OnceFallen did conduct a fundraiser to pay for a new, more modern and mobile-friendly website in March 2021. The expense for this new website plus the cost of converting the website to a new server totaled about $1200. However, the new service costs just under half of the old Yahoo Small Business service I was using, so annual website fees are now only about $60 a year, a far more manageable amount than the $144 a year Yahoo was charging me. 

The only other major expense was the trip to St. Paul MN as part of the July rally against the MSOP civil commitment program, but since St. Paul is a relatively short distance from Nebraska and the hotels were reasonable, travel expenses were under $700 for two representatives. Other typical expenses for OnceFallen.com include stamps, envelopes, paper, and other office supplies. 

Financial support increased slightly over 2020 numbers, and OnceFallen.com ends the year with enough to cover any immediate needs in the coming months, and the website fees are paid through September, so there is no need to fundraise. Furthermore, with ACSOL planning a major event in 2023 in DC, OnceFallen.com is not currently planning any major event for 2022 unless something I feel is an emergency situation arises. 

Website Data: I can no longer accurately report website usage data. However, with the site now mobile friendly, usage likely went up as the site became more accessible. 

OnceFallen.com's annual report for 2020 shows record levels for assistance

ONCE FALLEN ANNUAL REPORT 2020 

Since 2016, OnceFallen has published an annual report which tracks the assistance given to and given by OnceFallen.com. While the COVID-19 pandemic altered the focus of Anti-Registry activism this year, demand for assistance reached all all-time high.

MAJOR EFFORTS BY ONCEFALLEN

Despite the global pandemic, OnceFallen still assisted in a number of events throughout the year.

SURVEY & REPORT ASSISTANCE: OnceFallen promoted the Veteran’s Survey conducted by Shawn Rolfe and Emily Horowitz, sending the survey to dozens of federal prisoners. In addition, OnceFallen has conducted its own survey related to the COVID-19 registration issue. OnceFallen also monitored announcements from LEOs to maintain a list of closures during the initial pandemic wave in the spring of 2020. OnceFallen also counted the number of employed registrants in Delaware to determine a 36% unemployment rate for RCs in 2020 in DE.

DENVER PROTEST: OnceFallen assisted in the planning and participated in the protest against the Millard v Camper decision in the 10th Circuit, a bad ruling that denied the registry is punitive. OnceFallen also designed the brochures handed out during the event.

YOUR LIFE ON THE LIST, A REGISTRY SURVIVAL GUIDE: In September 2020, “Your Life on The List” by Derek Logue was published by Amazon.com. The guide was created to help prisoners and the recently released navigate the myriad of “sex offender” laws in place. The guide contains a comprehensive summary of the laws of all 50 states plus DC and the territories and other useful resources for Registered Persons. A PDF version can be found for free on OnceFallen.com while printed versions can be ordered from Amazon.com.

FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS RETURNED TO NEAR 2017/2018 LEVELS

After two years of steady contributions to OnceFallen’s Anti-Registry efforts, there was a huge dip in financial contributions in 2019. For 2020, donations returned to levels still below but closer to 2017/2018 levels. (A new laser printer of unknown value was donated as well.)

The primary expenses for OnceFallen in 2020 included the annual website fee, the protest in Denver, the material needed to send prisoner requests (ink, paper, envelopes, stamps), copies of books for distribution, and a new computer. Because donations exceeded expenses for 2020, OnceFallen ends on a slight surplus (as opposed to ending on a deficit in 2019). Thus, OnceFallen does not plan on hosting a fundraiser to start the upcoming year.

PRISONER OUTREACH SERVICES INCREASED AT RECORD PACE IN 2020

Prisoner outreach has taken over as OnceFallen’s primary function in 2020. OnceFallen offers the Informational Corrlinks Newsletter (ICoN) through the Corrlinks email system (a correctional email system used by the BOP and a handful of states, such as Wisconsin), answers requests for various guides such as the ACSOL 50 state visitor’s guide (a revision was made independently in Oct. 2020) as well as the newly released registry survival guide. See the resources I provide at http://www.oncefallen.com/icon.html

Subscriptions to the ICoN increased from 473 at the end of 2019 to 637 at the end of 2019 to 637, and increase of 164 subscribers (a 34.67% increase). This marks five years of increasing growth in the Corrlinks network, with 2020 having the largest increase in new subscribers. Here is the growth over the past 5 years:

• ICoN Subscribers 2016: 155
• ICoN Subscribers 2017: 221 (+66, 41.7%)
• ICoN Subscribers 2018: 350 (+129, 63%)
• ICoN Subscribers 2019: 473 (+123, 35%)
• ICoN Subscribers 2020: 637 (+164, 34.7%)

A total of 220 individual first contacts came from prisoners or those in civil commitment centers (109 through Corrlinks and 111 by mail).

A total of 285 postal letters arrived in 2020 and while not all letters come from prisoners, nearly all are requests for info related to the OnceFallen prisoner outreach. This year broke all previous records for letters received.

• Letters to OnceFallen 2013: 43
• Letters to OnceFallen 2014: 43 
• Letters to OnceFallen 2015: 73 (+30, 69.7%)
• Letters to OnceFallen 2016: 121 (+43, 65.7%)
• Letters to OnceFallen 2017: 184 (+63, 52.1%)
• Letters to OnceFallen 2018: 172 (-8, -1%)
• Letters to OnceFallen 2019: 175 (+3, 2%)
• Letters to OnceFallen 2020: 285 (+110, 62.9%)

NEW CONTACTS FOR ONCEFALLEN HIT RECORD LEVELS IN 2020

In 2020, OnceFallen assisted 476 individuals who reached out for assistance. About 46.2% of those (220 of the 476) were prisoners/ civilly committed. This is the most total contacts in any year overall and the largest increase since OnceFallen was founded in 2007.

• New Contacts 2016: 291
• New Contacts 2017: 422 (+125, +42.1%)
• New Contacts 2018: 401 (-21, -5%)
• New Contacts 2019: 336 (-65, -16%)
• New Contacts 2020: 476 (+140, +41.7%)

For 2020, I kept up with the nature of requests to help me better serve those who make inquiries. Some of these may overlap because people sometimes make multiple requests. Also, some folks contact me occasionally with later requests.

• ·         Legal Questions: 105 contacts. This includes everything from questions about particular state laws or a specific topic like residency laws or IML, or for requests like attorney lists or activist contacts for a particular state.
• ·         Housing issues: 94 contacts (housing list or advice). Three housing providers, however, contacted me requesting removal from the housing list, and those three aren’t counted here.
• ·         General Info: 62 contacts. This includes contacts for a variety of reasons, like calls from those from people soon to be convicted or from family members of registrants who don’t know what to expect, or advice on finding employment or other resources.
• ·         ICoN-specific inquiries: 59 contacts. Direct questions related to the ICoN/ Prisoner services.
• ·         Resources: 54 contacts. These are direct requests for specific printed guides or books from prisoners. An underestimate since only initial inquiries are counted. Many inmates request multiple guides. This number is expected to go down in 2021 since many resources are contained within the registry guide book created by OnceFallen.
• ·         Veteran’s Survey requests: 15 contacts.
• ·         COVID-related issues: 9 contacts.
• ·         Harassing calls: OnceFallen received threats of violence and harassment from seven vigilantes in 2020.

New contacts by month: 72 in Jan., 33 in Feb., 37 in Mar., 30 in Apr., 38 in May, 54 in June, 37 in July, 46 in Aug., 40 in Sept., 35 in Oct., 40 in Nov., 25 in Dec.

People from a total o 41 US State, one US Territory and Canada contacted me (185 contacts were of unknown origin.) Most contacts by state/ nation: FL (26); CA (23); OH (21); TX (21); NY/VA (14 each); IL (13); PA (12); WI (11); CO (10); AL/GA (9 each); MD/NC (8 each); NJ (7); AZ/IA/MO/OR (6 each); AR/KY (5 each); KS/MI/MN/NE/SC (4 each); ID/IN/LA/TN (3 each); DE/MA/OK/UT/WA/WV (2 each); MS/NM/NV/SD/WY/US Virgin Islands/ Canada (1 each); unknown (185). No contacts from AK, CT, HI, ME, MT, ND, NH, RI, or VT of the known contacts were made in 2020.

New Contacts by means utilized: email (153), Corrlinks (109), Postal Service (107), Phone call (64), Text Message (30), Facebook (11), and LinkedIn (2).

ONCEFALLEN VISIBILITY

OnceFallen.com received 253,132 visitors in 2020. OnceFallen.com counts actual visits, not “hits”, to determine users to the site.  

• OnceFallen.com Visitors 2016: 133,491
• OnceFallen.com Visitors 2017: 228,275 (+97,484 or +71%)
• OnceFallen.com Visitors 2018: 334,687 (+106,412 or +46.6%)
• OnceFallen.com Visitors 2019: 218,040 (-116,647 or -25.9%)
• OnceFallen.com Visitors 2020: 253,132 (+35,092 or 16.1%)

At least 24% of visitors to OnceFallen.com use the site multiple times throughout the year.

In total, 2262 free PDF copies of “Your Life on The List”, OnceFallen.com’s registry survival guide and overview of each state/ territory registry laws were accessed. Since OnceFallen gave full distribution rights (and profits) for the physical copies on Amazon.com to Reset Missouri, they would have data on number of physical book sales; thus, I don’t know how many books sold through Amazon. 

Appearances of Derek Logue or OnceFallen.com doubled from 2 in 2019 to 4 in 2020. Two OpEds written by OnceFallen in The Crime Report, and one in the Lincoln Journal Star. The other appearances were in South Florida media after Derek Logue defeated Florida State Senator Lauren Book on 1st Amendment grounds in the Florida Appeals Court.

OnceFallen's 2019 Annual Report shows another year declining support but increased need for prisoner services

ONCE FALLEN 2019 ANNUAL REPORT

2019 has been an eventful and difficult year for OnceFallen.com. First, my apartment had caught fire in February. Second, I was falsely accused of theft in Broward County FL (anyone who thinks I would actually drive 1100 miles each way in less than 12 hours w/o a license or car and steal car manuals in broad daylight is a complete idiot). Third, I suffered a string of false allegations primarily from Michael McKay from Registry Report and Dwayne Daughtry from NCRSOL. I have severed all ties to any groups supporting these two individuals.

On the upside, the SLAPP suit placed on me by Florida State Senator Lauren Book was overturned on appeal so I am free to protest the Book Crime Family once again. I was also able to attend the SMART Office symposium in Chicago as part of a larger anti-registry effort to confront the agency for promoting bad public policy.

Because of the personal disruptions in my personal life, I was unavailable for part of the year, particularly in the spring.

FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ONCEFALLEN DECLINED DRASTICALLY FOR 2019

Donations to OnceFallen.com have declined significantly in 2019, a 43% decrease from 2018. As was the case last year, OnceFallen ends the year 2019 with a budget deficit of around $400. The amount raised for 2019 is merely a third of the raised in the peak year of 2016.

The use for the funds in 2019 included the trip to Chicago for the SMART Office symposium, replacement of work equipment that was lost in February’s fire, and cost for the prisoner outreach (stamps, envelopes, paper, printer toner, etc.). I offer a variety of printed materials to inmates so many letters I send out contain dozens of pages of printed materials.

In response to this, I will be cutting back on certain other projects to concentrate on the one growing area for OnceFallen, prisoner outreach, as well as focusing on improving the housing list and other important info on my website. OnceFallen will still need to raise roughly $1000 to cover past expenses and cover expected expenses related to the aforementioned goals over the coming year. If support continues to decline, then the OnceFallen.com site may go into default and be taken down and all operations may cease.

ONCE FALLEN ACTIVITY STATISTICS

Earlier this year, OnceFallen and SOSEN.org worked out an arrangement by which I will answer prisoner letters sent to either organization. (The person responsible for answering SOSEN’s letters passed away last winter.) This allowed me to expand my efforts to help prisoners find useful information. In part because of that, OnceFallen’s prisoner outreach has seen its fourth year of steady growth despite the personal life disruptions. Moving from Ohio to Nebraska led to loss in ability to respond to phone calls in a timely manner throughout much of 2019.

• Website visitors: 218,040 (334,687 in 2018, down 25.9%)
• ICoN Subscribers: 473 (350 in 2018, up 35%)
• Prisoner Letters: 175 (172 in 2018, up 2%)
• Media Appearances: Two (9 in 2018, down 78%); should be noted one was a letter to the editor and the other was in regard to my victory over Lauren Book's SLAPP Suit
• Individual Contacts: 336 (401 in 2018, down 16%)
• Total # of States with at least one individual contact: 39 (43+DC in 2018)
• States with no known contact in 2019 (as many never identify location, many are from unknown locations, only known locations are ID’ed here): DC, DE, HI, ID, IA, ME, MS, NH, ND, RI, SD, VT
• Contacts from outside the USA: China (1); U.K. (1)
• States from Most to Least number of New Contacts 2019: Location Unknown (67); OH (30); FL (23); CA (21); TX (14); GA & NY (12 each); VA & AL (10 each); PA (9); NC (8); MI &WI (7 each); AZ, CO, IL, WA (6 each); MN, MO, OR (5 each); KY, TN, UT (4 each); AR, KS, MA, SC (3 each); CT, IN, NJ, OK (2 each); AK, LA, MD, MT, NE, NM, NV, WV, WY (1 each)
• First Contacts by month: January, 36; February, 26; March, 13; April, 22; May, 65; June, 28; July, 27; August, 23; Sept, 27; October, 28; November, 15; December, 26
• Contacts by type: Email (105); Letter (81); Phone (70); Corrlinks (58); Text (20); SOSEN.org (1); Facebook (1)

OnceFallen 2018 Annual Report: Website & Assistance Requests increase greatly, contributions remain steady

OnceFallen wrapped up its 11th year of operations in 2018. Much like last year, our website saw exponential growth in usage, and our prison newsletter (The ICoN) has also increased by leaps and bounds. 

FINANCES

OnceFallen had a few major expenses -- The Art Protest Project in Maine (the biggest & most expensive project of the year, about 60% of the total expenses), the appeals for the lawsuit in Florida, and a new laptop, annual website fees, and regular expenses for the prison ministry (stamps, paper, ink, etc.), and for the second year in a row, expenses exceeded contributions. For the first time since 2015, OnceFallen was operating with a deficit. (Thankfully, a few contributions following the new year has risen the OnceFallen balance into positive territory.) Contributions remained steady, raising a similar amount to 2017, which was a third below 2016. As a reminder, OnceFallen generally has a low overhead, so small contributions go far. This year, we expect to work on projects closer to home to keep costs extremely low and looking ahead to bigger things for 2020. 

WEBSITE

Website total visitors: 334,687 (228,275 in 2017, a 68.2% increase and a 150.7% increase from the 133,491 visitors in 2016). Visitors increased every month, peaking in August, and declining slowly as winter arrived. Media appearances and the unfortunate negative press from losing the Florida SLAPP suit (now in appeals) had little impact on website usage. 

CONTACTS

• ICoN Users: 350 (+129 from 2017; 63% increase) 
• Inmate Letters: 172 (-8 from 2017; 1% decrease)
• Media Appearances: 9 (+1 from 2017)
• Individual Contacts: 401 (-21 from 2017; 5% decrease)
• States w/ one known contact: 43 & DC
• States w/o known contact: HI, ME, ND, RI, SD, WY
• Non-US known contact: UK (1), Brazil (1)
• States from most to least known contact: 26 (OH); 25 (FL); 22 (CA); 21 (NY); 15 (IL); 13 (AL, PA, TX); 12 (CO); 10 (MI); 9 (AZ, GA, TN); 7 (KY, WA); 6 (NJ); 5 (MN, OK); 4 (MD, MO, NE, NH); 3 (AR, DE, KS, MA, MS, NM, NV, VA); 2 (CT, DC, IN, LA, MT, UT, WV); 1 (AK, IA, ID, NC, OR, SC, WI)
• First Contacts by type: Email (160); Phone (113); Corrlinks (52); Letter (47); Text (22); Facebook (5); Twitter (2)
• First Contacts By Month: Jan (42); Feb (60); Mar (34); Apr (26); May (29); June (32); July (30); Aug (21); Sept (40); Oct (32); Nov (33); Dec (37)

Individual new contacts and inmate letters (which are mainly info requests) decreased slightly in 2018, but the ICoN received huge increases in membership. 

PLANS FOR 2019

OnceFallen's plan for 2019 is to spend most of the year catching up on writing and finding ways to improve the website. There are not any planned protests, but we want to improve upon the campus awareness event we had in Maine. Most likely, any events similar to the Maine event in 2019 will take place close to home. 

Once Fallen' 2017 Annual Report -- Request for assistance greatly increases, contributions greatly decreases

ONCE FALLEN 2017 ANNUAL REPORT

OnceFallen celebrated 10 years of operation on December 5, 2017. In time for our 10 year anniversary, we reached 1 million visitors and had the biggest year ever in amount of assistance offered by OnceFallen.

Doing more with less could be the unofficial motto of the 2017 OnceFallen annual report. While financial support decreased by a third for OnceFallen, requests for assistance from OnceFallen increased by the largest amount in its 10 year history (roughly 40%). Thankfully, a donation surge at the end of last year following the Xmas at the Camp event kept OnceFallen from plunging into debt (barely). Expect to see a decrease in activist activity for OnceFallen in 2018 as support for this organization has dried up considerably since the early part of the year.

Part 1: CONTACT STATS

This stat covers how I was initially contacted by a new contact during the year:

TOTAL INDIVIDUAL FIRST CONTACTS: 422

2016 total contacts and difference: 297 (+125 or 42.1% increase)

Total Number of States: 38 plus DC: 35 FL, 28 OH, 26 PA, 26 AL, 25 TX, 22 CA, 17 IL, 16 NY, 15 NC, 14 GA, 10 WA, 9 IN, 9 MI, 8 MO, 8 TN, 6 AZ, 6 NJ, 5 AR, 5 OK, 5 OR, 4 KY, 4 LA, 4 MN, 4 SC, 4 WI, 3 MD, 3 NE, 3 VA, 3 WV, 2 KS, 2 UT, 1 AK, 1 O, 1 DC, 1 IA, 1 MA, 1 MS, 1 RI, 1 WY
Include 3 UK, 1 EU, and 71 who did not specify a location; 11 were from the media

First contact locations:

Email 152, Phone 138, Mail/ Letter 70, Corrlinks 25, Texting 23, social media 10 (all from FB)
By Month: Jan. 45, Feb. 32, Mar. 32, Apr. 60, May 32, Jun. 27, Jul. 47, Aug. 36, Sep. 31, Oct. 34, Nov. 26, Dec. 24

Total Inmate Letters: 180 (2016- 121 letters, + 59, 48.76% increase) A number of letters are of ongoing correspondence, and dozens were merely requests for printouts of 50 state spreadsheets from ACSOL and CCRC. To offset the costs, OnceFallen has requested prisoners send two stamps for each of the printouts. Even then, some prisoners cannot afford the stamps but requests are still fulfilled.
Corrlinks Mailing list as of 12/31/17: 221 subscribers (2016- 155 subscribers, + 65, 41.7% increase)

Media appearances: Eight (down from 13 in 2016), though one documentary won’t be released until next year.

WEBSITE USAGE

Total Visitors: 228,275 (133,491 visitors in 2016, +94784 or 71% increase)

Sometime on 11/27/2017, OnceFallen.com logged its one millionth individual visitor. Interestingly, during the week of September 20-27 and for three days between 11/17 and 11/19, there were interruptions in the access logs, so some visitors for that week was seemingly not counted. It is possible there were unreported service interruptions to OnceFallen operations during that time or even online attacks on the site that went unnoticed.

FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Financial support for OnceFallen declined by roughly a third over last year’s totals, with 55% of support coming from just three contributors. Expenses exceeded donations by 35% this year but was offset by a surplus of funds left over from last year that came in after Christmas and a surge of support early in 2017. However, contributions have fallen off a cliff since May, so the surplus quickly dried up.

Travel is always the largest expense because travel is expensive, even on a budget. OnceFallen traveled to Nebraska, Florida and Oregon to engage in activism projects (and Washington DC to witness the Packingham v NC case in person), and though we strive to find the cheapest hotels and travel possible (we never count food, souvenirs or any personal purchase as “business expenses”), travel is simply expensive, especially to Florida. Thus, 56% of the expenses for 2017 came from travel.

Office supplies is the next largest expense, including phone, letters, envelopes, stamps, printers and ink, paper, and other supplies necessary for answering inquiries. This represented 21% of the 2017 budget expenditure for OnceFallen.

It is a little known fact that OnceFallen sometimes sends care packages or other financial support to some who are newly released from prison as well as homeless registrants. I do not advertise this because I would be overwhelmed with requests, and rarely do I have the budget to offer much to those who request it. Funds that went to this purpose included donations to other websites, cash or supplies for homeless or stranded registrants, and stamps or free info packets for those in prison. This comprised 20% of the 2017 expenses for OnceFallen.

The Shiitake Awards is a fun project but by far the least expensive project, save for costumes and props. Cost for props for two award shows (got the 2017 awards show finished early) only represents 3% of OnceFallen expenses.

FINAL THOUGHTS

OnceFallen will be slowing down operations for 2018. There are a few things that are needed for this year (new computer, possibly an upgraded website) but travel-related expenses should be minimal, as we are expecting to engage in fewer in-person public awareness events in anticipation of a larger project to be announced for either 2019 or 2020. The main focus will be on implementing new ideas for the website and a larger focus on resource-gathering for prisoners and the recently released.

OnceFallen.com's 2016 Annual Report

Apparently, some folks still don't know what it is that I do with my time and the donations that trickle in to OnceFallen.com. I do many things-- travel to testify against bad legislation or engage in other hands-on projects, run my website and an inmate newsletter (ICoN), and answer hundreds of letters, calls and emails. All of this stuff costs money, of course, and thus, donations help offset the costs. I am a one-man operation with no staff, Board of Directors or tax forms to deal with, which frees me to try many projects other groups can't (or won't) do. The fact that support for OnceFallen.com has grown exponentially over the past two years has encouraged me to increase my efforts.

It isn't exactly bragging to mention all I have done in the past year, because people who support OnceFallen.com should be able to see where their support goes. Thus, for all who are curious, here is my Annual Report of OnceFallen's work in 2016.

Individual Inquiries: 

From 291 different individuals (135 by mail, 103 phone, 40 by letter, 13 by phone text, and some from private messages on various websites). Many of these inquiries were of multiple responses.

Individuals corresponded from 37 states plus DC, Puerto Rico and 3 nations (US, UK, and Australia). The states with the largest number of inquiries were New York (29), Florida (27), Ohio (22), Alabama (21), Texas (TX) and California (17). 35 inquiries did not identify their place of residence. States represented: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, Fl, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY. As standard procedure I direct them to state affiliate groups where one exists as well as directing them to national groups like SOSEN and NARSOL for support and further info.

Most inquiries are from registrants or loved ones of registrants; however, I received roughly 40 or so inquiries from college students, journalists, and others who are not registrants. OnceFallen.com made 14 Media Appearances, including two episodes of HLN's Dr Drew show. Not all my media inquiries lead to an appearance. Some ask for specific types of registrants or simply want some information.

In total, I received 121 letters in the mail in 2016. Many were inmate inquiries, and many asked for ACSOL's 50 state registration/ residency restriction chart of the relief from the registry fact guide from the CCRC, which are up to 20 printed pages each. I request inmates who can do so offset the costs by sending a SASE with 2 stamps for these spreadsheets, but not all can afford them. A few letters came from those not incarcerated but who were either unable to use computers or were not computer savvy.

The Corrlinks newsletter has 156 subscribers at the end of 2016. Corrlinks readers share newsletters with those who are unable to use the inmate email system, thus increasing exposure to our efforts to abolish the registry.

OnceFallen.com individual visitor counter: 133,491 visitors in 2016, up from 110,762 in 2015

Fundraisers and Expenses:

OnceFallen engaged in numerous projects last year. Granted, not every project was as successful as we had hoped, but supporters kept us going for another year.

Trip expenses:

NY ARM protest against Parents For Megan's Law: $1000, which included travel for multiple folks, hotel, and supplies, including costs of sending out letters to 260 registered citizens in Suffolk Co NY.

Oakland Protest: $490, bus/ hotel (shared room with fellow protester) plus sign materials.

Two trips to Columbus Ohio @ $30 each to testify against legislation.

Ft Lauderdale: First visit to the homeless camp, $215 (hotel costs were split with fellow activist)

Atlanta; It only cost me $200 to go to Atlanta and spend two nights; Janice from ACSOL paid my RSOL conference fee (I had only planned to attend the roundtable meeting, and I bought a cheap hotel room under renovation to cut costs by 50%.)

Miami: Christmas at the camp: $934 raised to bring socks, underwear, and other needed goods to the homeless registrant camp, As promised, every dime I raised between October and December went to the camp. OnceFallen's end of the year balance was $0.

OnceFallen website annual fee: $120
New Modem to offset costs of cable company rental modem: $65
Stamps, envelopes, paper and other needed supplies: $335

These trips were only possible through the donations of those who support OnceFallen. Without their donations, I couldn't engage in these projects myself. My personal policy for travel is I find the cheapest form of travel possible and try to find the cheapest hotels, and I will share my room with a fellow activist to offset costs. I only include direct, unique costs related to the event (transportation, hotel, supplies, and even help compensate others who attend when possible.). I do NOT count personal purchases, such as food, clothes or souvenirs as expenses.

This is a one-man operation with an extremely small budget. I do not pay myself a salary with the donations, either. I receive not personal compensation other than the satisfaction of destroying bad legislation and helping those on the registry in need of guidance. This operation has been blessed enough to somehow raise just enough funds to serve its purpose, and I never ask for more than necessary. So to those questioning what it is I do, I'm very transparent. If you want to know what I do with the money, then ask. I also have folks who can verify that I am very low-maintenance and I am very good at trimming expenses.